Titanic Star Leonardo DiCaprio Reveals His Biggest Career Regret: Not Doing Boogie Nights

Leonardo DiCaprio is simply a Hollywood fable with scores of blockbuster films nether his belt. Titanic, Inception, The Revenant, Django Unchained… the database goes on. Still, the histrion has vocation regrets, and he’s present revealed the biggest one: not doing Boogie Nights.

1997’s Boogie Nights, from writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson, tells the communicative of a young nightclub dishwasher who becomes a porn prima called Dirk Diggler successful 1970s Los Angeles. It is 1 of Transformers prima Mark Wahlberg’s astir iconic roles, but it was primitively intended for Leonardo DiCaprio aft Anderson saw him successful The Basketball Diaries. DiCaprio, who had to crook the relation down due to the fact that helium had signed connected to prima successful James Cameron's Titanic, recommended his The Basketball Diaries co-star Mark Wahlberg for the relation instead. The remainder is history.

Leonardo DiCaprio chose Titanic implicit Boogie Nights, and the remainder is history. Photo by CBS via Getty Images.

DiCaprio has spoken astir wishing he'd been capable to bash some Boogie Nights and Titanic successful the past. Now, successful a just-published speech betwixt Paul Thomas Anderson and DiCaprio himself successful Esquire, helium called not doing Boogie Nights his biggest regret.

“I’ll accidental it adjacent though you’re here: my biggest regret is not doing Boogie Nights,” DiCaprio told Anderson. “It was a profound movie of my generation. I can’t ideate anyone but Mark [Wahlberg] successful it. When I yet got to spot that movie, I conscionable thought it was a masterpiece. It’s ironic that you’re the idiosyncratic asking that question, but it’s true.”

In a 2008 interrogation with GQ, DiCaprio was asked whether helium would prime Boogie Nights implicit Titanic, could helium spell backmost and marque the determination again.

“I'm not saying I would have,” helium replied. “But it would person been a antithetic direction, careerwise. I deliberation they're some large and privation I could person done them both.”

DiCaprio continued: “I would person been blessed to bash them both. And the information is, if I'd not done Titanic, I wouldn't beryllium capable to bash the types of movies oregon person the vocation I person now, for sure. But it would person been absorbing to spot if I had gone the different way.”

After Titanic came retired and acceptable the container bureau alight, DiCaprio starred successful the likes of The Beach, Gangs of New York, Catch Me If You Can, The Aviator, and galore much movies. He is acceptable to look successful One Battle After Another, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, successful September.

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